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telephone tag
noun
the serial leaving of messages when two people who are trying to talk by telephone can never reach each other US- It installed telephone answering machines on many telephones so people could leave messages and avoid playing the game of “telephone tag,” which, it was found, occupied an inordinate number of man-hours. — The American Banker, p. 7, 3 July 1979
- — Judi Sanders, Kickin’ like Chicken with the Couch Commander, p. 24, 1992
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